Bart W.J. Van Besien
It will be my pleasure to help you with any of the following: Intellectual property: copyright, neighbouring rights, trademarks, image rights, design rights, software protection, protection of know-how and trade secrets, IP portfolio management, licensing agreements, and “droit de suite”. Internet & media law: domain names, e-commerce, advertising law, freedom of expression, right of reply, right to be forgotten (removal requests), libel and defamation (reputation management), legal opinions and contract negotiations for media companies, authors, directors, producers, actors, etc. Advice and contract negotiations for the creative sector: writers, artists, photographers, musicians, actors, performers, television and film producers, game developers, software developers, web designers, publishers, architects, designers in various industries such as fashion, furniture, toys, etc. Photography: including taking action against unauthorised use of pictures online, clearing of locations for photo shoots (copyright and freedom of panorama). Privacy and data protection. Start-ups and the sharing economy: including legal advice on the incorporation of companies, draft of platform contracts, terms and conditions, rules on Airbnb, etc. General contract law. Arbitration: Bart has a solid experience with arbitration disputes, both as a lawyer and as an arbitrator. Bart is certified to act as an arbiter in IP disputes by FORUM (US), and in domain name disputes by Cepani (Belgium), FORUM (USA), Czech Arbitration Court (Czech Republic) and ADNDRC (Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur). Sports law: including contract negotiations and portrait rights. Telecom Law: including rules on numbering, cable and satellite transmission, networks, etc. Bart works fluently in English, Dutch and French. He also has knowledge of German and Spanish.
- Intellectual Property
- Trademarks
- Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business - Arbitration/Mediation, Consumer - Arbitration/Mediation, Family - Arbitration/Mediation
- Communications & Internet Law
- Internet Law, Media & Advertising, Telecommunications Law
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- International Law
- Human Rights, Imports & Exports
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- Dutch: Spoken, Written
- English: Spoken, Written
- French: Spoken, Written
- German: Spoken
- Spanish: Spoken
- Auteursrecht voor Architecten, juridische en fiscale toelichting,
- NAV
- De reprografie uitzondering na het HP-arrest (C-572/13) en het recente voorontwerp van wet in verband met de reprografie
- Larcier - RABG
- Over auteursrecht, parodie en appropriation art: een voorlopige analyse van het vonnis Van Giel t. Tuymans in het licht van het HJEU arrest Deckmyn t. Vandersteen
- Auteurs & Media
- Copyright – Belgium, in Sherrell, Ph. (ed.), The International Comparative Legal Guide to Copyright 2016
- Global Legal Group
- Changing conditions of competition for public service and commercial media in Belgium: Implications for media independence
- Palgrave Macmillan
- AirBnB Regulation in Belgium, Digital Business Models - Legal Aspects of the Sharing Economy, Brussels, Belgium
- KULeuven – Intersentia
- Copyright and the media: Western European practices, Challenges of Online Media in S.E.E., Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Press Council Bosnia Herzegovina & Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
- Technical Convergence and Media Policy on Free and Independent Media: unfair competition and copyright in the relation between online information supplier, Towards Neo-Journalism? Redefining, Extending or Reconfiguring a Profession, Brussels, Belgium
- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) – Université de Namur (FUNDP)
- Media policy for the written press in Belgium, ECREA, 4th European Communication Conference, Instanbul, Turkey
- ECREA
- Privacy: New European Legislation, cookies and the Right to be Forgotten, Confocus Legal Days, Ghent, Belgium
- Confocus
